@94_850_t5 oh I wondered where my old wagon was these days!

Yeah I have more or less decided to sort out the issues with this one and get it up to a standard I'm happy with.

To that end, tonight I replaced the heater core, hard lines, and both hoses, and the lower rad hose, and flushed the coolant system with good concentrate and distilled water. Heater no longer smells like coolant, woohoo
How good would it have been if the heater core could have been a full metal unit with no chance of cracking or blowing out. Would have saved me at least 4 occasions of mopping out and drying passenger side foot wells :anguished:
Still, great car even after 25 years! Keep up the good work!
All metal units crack and blow out all the time
Considering effort and ease of the 850 solutions it's pretty good
And using a quality core means no issues.
10 days later
Fixed the ABS again. The front right cable failed in another place. When I pulled it out I found it has evidence of four separate patches!

I used the Volvo kit and spliced it up near the loom channel at the top of the engine bay. Job done.

Also changed the fuel filter.




5 days later
So I had it, the A1RM pads are just a massive nuisance they never stop squealing and they've worn my rotors very unevenly. There were all sorts of bits and pieces in the exposed parts of the pad, like the pad material wasn't ground up enough. I don't know, or care, but I won't be buying them again. I have now a set of ATE pads and I took the rotors over to Mike's where we cleaned them up finishing around 24.2mm thickness (26mm new, 23mm replace) so not a total loss at least.


6 days later
The boost was getting out! I ordered a new ICV outlet hose ages ago seeing that mine was fairly hard, didn't realise it had in the interim exploded entirely. That explains the crappy power. All fixed now




3 months later

So I pulled the dash because I had to fix an a/c flap and also some rattles. I found a Nokia car phone speaker cable-tied to the steering column! Vintage.

Also found all mounts busted, so I've started repairing them. While that was happening I replaced the Kumhos with RE003s, so I'm running those on all four wheels now.

So I'm fabricating new mount brackets for them. They are varying degrees of shattered. I managed to find most of the pieces and super glue them together so at least I have a good template for the new mounts.

I also found this module, does that mean the car is setup for remote central locking and it's just the fob that I'm missing?

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    jamesinc

    I also found this module, does that mean the car is setup for remote central locking and it's just the fob that I'm missing?

    Yes it does . You need this kind of fob with that board and no need to program the fob either . I found that board in my spares car , plugged it in mine then tried the fob and worked straight away .

      @rado you don't happen to know what part that fob is do you? Also, doesn't that mean anyone with a fob could unlock my car?

        jamesinc

        @rado you don't happen to know what part that fob is do you? Also, doesn't that mean anyone with a fob could unlock my car?

        I've got a spare one iirc

        Your welcome to come by and take it for testing

          jamesinc

          @rado you don't happen to know what part that fob is do you? Also, doesn't that mean anyone with a fob could unlock my car?

          Not too sure but can look when i get home if you like .

          Not too sure about other fobs working but on a side note I'm sure there are not too many other 850s rolling around for others to get into .

          Is your curcuit board naked or in a box ? Hard to see picture on phone . Mine is naked .

            A fob has to be programmed to match the car. i.e No other fobs will open your car.

            If you ever need to know how to do it check out this dudes video!

            https://youtu.be/Zzuyp3TUadM

            I have a few genuine key fobs, I'll see if I can find them.

            11 days later

            Work on the dash is just about done. I got rid of all this old perished foam:

            and installed new foam. This is a Bunnings product. It has excellent adhesive on the back of the foam

            https://www.bunnings.com.au/whites-50-x-5mm-x-1m-adhesive-rubber-foam_p3961980

            Left some messages for the next guy. One of the four mounts was totally exploded so I decided just to leave it. The other three seem pretty robust now, I gave them a few shoves to see if the plastic would crack more and it didn't. The glue is one of those thick adhesive filler products just to take up all the little clearances around the plastic.

            I also repaired the hinge points for the glove box, as they were also shattered, and the mount points for the driver kick panel, as they were also shattered. Pretty much everything in this dash is some variety of shattered, and I am not the first person to come in here repairing things.

            Omg it doesn't even wobble anymore

            Hello gents, if anyone still has any spare keys fobs then please let me know - Iā€™d be keen. For a 1996 850R - thanks šŸ‘

              Pretty close to done now. I took my time with the install, and I cleaned up and re-blacked the plastic valance that goes over the wiper motor while I had it out. I also used the opportunity to work out the extent to which my original sound system wiring had been butchered, and it's not great, but I think if I want to repair it I can just replace the sub-harness to the amp.

              All that's left really is the dash pad itself.

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